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Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont’s local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process. (Source)

As a punk schoolboy in Dublin in the 1970s, Neil McCormick wants to be famous, he wants to be a rock god. Neil and his brother Ivan have it all worked out–the albums, the stadium concerts, the quest for world peace. There's only one thing they hadn't counted on–the boy sitting on the other side of the classroom has plans of his own. And his name is Bono. (Source)

A behind-the-scenes look at the rise of the grungy alternative rock band Kings of Leon. In 2002, brothers Nathan, Caleb, and Jared Followill, along with their cousin Matthew, decided to form a band in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. The brothers spent most of their youth in poverty, living out of a car while touring the Bible Belt with their Pentecostal preacher father. Rebelling against this God-fearing nomadic lifestyle, these young men embraced secular music as well as recreational drugs, and now their fans number in the millions around the world. Here, we get a peak behind the curtain inter-cut with their annual family reunion in the backwoods of Talihina, Tennessee. (Source)

A behind-the-scenes look at the rise of the grungy alternative rock band Kings of Leon. In 2002, brothers Nathan, Caleb, and Jared Followill, along with their cousin Matthew, decided to form a band in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. The brothers spent most of their youth in poverty, living out of a car while touring the Bible Belt with their Pentecostal preacher father. Rebelling against this God-fearing nomadic lifestyle, these young men embraced secular music as well as recreational drugs, and now their fans number in the millions around the world. Here, we get a peak behind the curtain inter-cut with their annual family reunion in the backwoods of Talihina, Tennessee. (Source)

Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont’s local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process. (Source)

A pair of longtime friends channel their talent and passion for music into a cross-country road trip that brings them face to face with their past, present, and future. A world famous musician, whose debut album is a huge hit, retreats to his hometown after his sophomore effort flops. There he reconnects with his long lost best friend and fellow musician, the son of a punk rock guitar legend, who became a middle school music teacher. The reunion forces the two, to recall their youthful ambitions and reexamine the choices they’ve made. Accompanied by a raucous crew of musicians, they set off on a cathartic journey along historic Route 66 that brings them closer to each other, their history and their destiny. (Source)

It was the 1970s, and charismatic band leader, Conrad “Prof” Johnson, made history at an inner-city Houston high school. Johnson took the school's mediocre jazz band and turned them into a legendary funk powerhouse. Now, 35 years later, his students plan to pay a tribute to their now 92 year old Professor. Some of these past students have not played their instruments in decades yet they are determined to take the stage to show Johnson and the world that they have still got it. (Source)